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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | WHISTLE COMMAND | compo | Innovation | 4.75 | |
| 🥇 | 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | WHISTLE COMMAND | compo | Theme | 4.71 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Cm | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | Collector | 👥 | Znake | jam | 346 | 3.57 | 3.47 | 3.13 | 3.36 | 3.44 | 3.44 | 2.60 | 3.47 | ||
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | 👥 | SUBSUME | jam | 221 | 3.82 | 3.64 | 3.32 | 4.51 | 3.87 | 3.60 | 2.68 | 3.98 | ||
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | 👥 | My tiny friend and I went on a puzzle adventure in the forest... | jam | 118 | 4.04 | 4.04 | 3.39 | 3.95 | 3.38 | 3.50 | 3.93 | |||
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | 👥 | Windows LD | jam | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.50 | 3.50 | 4.50 | |||||
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | 👥 | Cassie's Truck | jam | 759 | 3.42 | 3.47 | 2.81 | 3.60 | 3.84 | 3.28 | ||||
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | 👥 | Seasons TD | jam | 346 | 3.57 | 3.65 | 3.57 | 4.02 | 3.26 | 3.36 | ||||
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | 👥 | thanks, II hate it! | jam | 692 | 3.42 | 3.37 | 3.02 | 3.66 | 2.95 | 3.78 | ||||
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | 👥 | Cassie's Hat | jam | 4.00 | 3.75 | 3.25 | 3.75 | 3.00 | 4.25 | 3.75 | ||||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | 👥 | FLIP OR DIE | jam | 1525 | 3.36 | 3.61 | 2.97 | 3.11 | 3.65 | 3.54 | 2.65 | 3.22 | ||
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | 👥 | Batulathil | jam | 3.00 | 2.50 | 3.50 | 3.00 | |||||||
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | 👥 | Invest® | jam | 622 | 3.36 | 2.94 | 2.73 | 2.73 | 2.65 | 3.60 | ||||
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | 👥 | Skeleport | jam | 420 | 3.54 | 3.69 | 3.00 | 3.85 | 3.97 | 2.97 | 3.21 | |||
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | 👥 | thanks, I hate it! | jam | 317 | 3.69 | 3.52 | 3.72 | 4.25 | 3.44 | 3.22 | 3.77 | 3.38 | ||
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | 👥 | Vampire Appliance | jam | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 4.00 | ||||
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | 👥 | +1💰 (the game) | jam | 313 | 3.48 | 3.60 | 3.72 | 2.27 | 2.56 | 2.47 | 2.62 | 2.72 | ||
| 2016 | 37 | One room | Zaaz Signal | jam | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | 35 | Shapeshift | ROVERBOARD âš” HOVERSWORD | jam | 944 | 2.79 | 2.96 | 2.43 | 3.04 | 3.04 | 3.32 | 3.56 | 3.00 | 53 | ||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | Flow | jam | 608 | 3.22 | 3.00 | 2.88 | 4.31 | 3.81 | 4.36 | 51 | ||||
| 2015 | 33 | You are the Monster | small blob friend | jam | 514 | 3.23 | 2.90 | 3.16 | 3.65 | 3.88 | 3.39 | 3.37 | 58 | |||
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | WHISTLE COMMAND | compo | 31 | 4.08 | 4.17 | 4.75 | 4.71 | 2.63 | 37 | |||||
| 2014 | 31 | Entire Game on One Screen | cover | compo | 189 | 3.62 | 3.54 | 3.62 | 3.66 | 3.18 | 3.46 | 61 | ||||
| 2014 | 30 | Connected Worlds | Space Truckers | compo | ||||||||||||
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | SneakyLink | compo | 360 | 3.38 | 3.26 | 4.31 | 3.04 | 2.88 | 3.41 | 3.54 | 48 | |||
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | Cress | compo | 1056 | 2.67 | 2.37 | 3.15 | 3.37 | 2.40 | 35 | |||||
| 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | Who Got Your Goat? A Murder Mystery | compo | 353 | 3.00 | 2.62 | 2.85 | 3.08 | 2.69 | 24 | |||||
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | Brevity | compo | 524 | 2.81 | 2.52 | 3.14 | 2.79 | 1.98 | 2.33 | 1.33 | 1.97 | 74 | ||
| 2011 | 22 | Alone | AS:ZT - Assault Squad: Zombie Tactics | compo | 118 | 3.23 | 2.73 | 3.24 | 1.81 | 2.04 | 2.48 | 2.52 | 1.79 | 3.00 | 10 | |
| 2011 | 21 | Escape | Upset | compo | 75 | 3.46 | 3.09 | 3.64 | 3.70 | 2.20 | 2.24 | 3.08 | 3.30 | 7 | ||
| 2011 | 20 | It's Dangerous to Go Alone! Take This! | A Colorful Man | compo | 90 | 3.21 | 3.21 | 3.36 | 2.71 | 2.71 | 3.29 | 3.21 | 3.67 | 4 | ||
| 2010 | 19 | Discovery | Planet Discover | compo | 143 | 2.67 | 2.33 | 1.87 | 3.47 | 1.87 | 1.92 | 2.80 | 3.44 | 54 |
grraaaah that vehicle sound will be in my nightmares tonight. I spent a while gathering zinc under the assumption that I would be sent back to the ship when I ran out of oxygen. Nope, I died. Which had the consequence of me not wanting to play anymore because I lost everything I had :(
I enjoyed this a lot! It was silly and really abstract but charming and fun. Not really sure how it fits into the Discovery theme, but it was good anyway.
I think the biggest mistake you made in the game design was assuming that players would make new piles for each artifact. I just moved my one pile from each artifact to the next, and this never gained much alien attention. Top notch audio.
If this had a tech category this would get five stars. Amazing!
The audio grated on me so much when using the goggles. Otherwise fun and slightly challenging.
I have no idea how this fits discovery.
Was unable to get to the top, after trying for 10 @%$#ing minutes. :(
On my first try the planet with the cure was right next to Earth. Convenient!
On my second try I died from trying to land a party in secret.
On my third and final try, I gave up because the game had gotten tedious without any luck. Too many duds and hostile planets.
You live up to your name, mrfun. In that this game is fun. Yes. Can't give you much points for theme, but I very much enjoyed the rest of the game - and your level generator is fantastic. I only even realized the levels were generated about 5 levels in. They felt like they were designed by a human - a sadistic human that hates children.
That was a lot of fun! I almost thought I was ready to give up, but the solution presented itself! Good stuff.
Ouch, that's hard. I realllllly love the concept. Unfortunately the challenge made me quit, but not because it's a bad game! I'm just not hardcore enough. Full marks for innovation, excellent job!
Those damn blue jellies. *shakes fist*
A pretty solid game, having figured out the controls. Controls were definitely the worst part; fix them and I will enjoy this a lot more. Charming graphics considering their ascii nature.
What kind of disgraceful pirate doesn't like rum?! Lot of simple, easy fun.
It becomes really frustrating because it's mostly luck-based.
More a toy than a game, but a pretty amusing toy!
The elastic bouncing made the game a lot less fun for me, unfortunately. Nicely polished game otherwise, but..
Getting stranded without fuel suuucccks
I ended up giving up on figuring out how to control the diver. It just seemed so counter-intuitive...
Discovering (see what I did there?) that I could hammer the helicopters was one of my favorite moments in gaming.
Amazing.
I figured out the puzzle immediately, but it took me so long with the finicky collision that I couldn't do it in time.
Dying was no punishment against my 500 gold treasury! I got 100% explored, heck yeah! PoV described the Fun category as "Did you look up at the clock, and found it was 5 hours later?" That's this game. Great work. (Also, I felt like the world map was just the right size - captured the largeness of a whole planet while still being doable)
I enjoyed the intro a lot more than the game itself :/
Grah, those checkpoints are wayyy too far away. Graaaah.
The non-sketch-type-world-thing was a really frustrating place to be. I preferred the pretty drawings :D
Runs fine for me on Windows with 60 FPS. Very amusing, although your Wikipedia article parser needs a little refinement. "== Background ==" is not the most interesting tidbit of information.
Collision was a bit finicky, but maybe that's just me. The floaty jumping was pretty maddening, and the progression of difficulty was frustrating. But, I enjoyed myself while I played, and even though it wasn't engrossing per se I liked it. (also, I liked the sound effects and music)
You get points for a great idea. Unfortunately you ran out of time, so I can't give this a very good rating.
I'll admit it, the fog mechanics were mostly the result of my having played with line of sight recently and wanting to shoehorn it into the game somehow. Makes the game last a little longer, I suppose.
Sure, why not. The moral is that no matter what you do, someone out there will think you did the wrong thing, so you shouldn't care what people think about you.
Also, the point is that there's no one "good" ending. All the endings have their merits and flaws.
Solid, and fun!
I only noticed after the third level that the music had stopped playing. Which was fine, it didn't really make an impression on me. So, 3 stars for audio. Gameplay-wise, the difficulty ramping needed to be increased - enemies were way too easy to dodge, and it just became strip-mining simulator 2011. Graphics were okay. Overall, two stars for effort.
Got stuck on Army of the Dead. Got almost everything else :(
Simple pattern recognition but with women who sound like they're being forced to talk to you! Just like my love life. :D (Also, did you take all of those pictures within the 48 hours? Because I'm wondering how you managed to get Susan's picture the number one image result for "firefox shirt" already!)
Pretty funny, actually. Some of the things it came up with.. If you'd added a way to see what the word you'd missed was, it'd actually be a pretty fun game of "try to figure out what that silly Sam is saying". As it is, I have to give it a 3/5 overall. You get higher points for a good concept!
Tilde is a bad choice. When I realized that's what you would have chosen I ended up plugging in another keyboard, and that's more effort than most people would have done. Appears to be an unfinished toy, not a game.
For some reason I couldn't get the Explosion death. Wouldn't activate (I'm on Chrome Win7, if that's relevant). A morbid but cute game.
I got it to work. It's not too complicated, it's just more effort than people were probably willing to put out. The graphics were actually not too bad, and the audio was charmingly low quality. Unfortunately the gameplay was decent at best. Overall, I give it a three out of five. Good work!
shows promise, but the compo version just isn't fun. I'll come back to the Jam version later.
okay, I found the plot rather interesting, but I really couldn't take it seriously with the grammatical errors. I don't have an issue with improper spelling or awkward grammar, but you hit a pet peeve of mine when you put a space before punctuation, and use multiple punctuation marks. "The guys must be waiting for me and I am already late!" is how that should read.
Picking on your English aside, I was surprised at how engaging the plot was, but the trivia was rather difficult. A bit more ambitious than you could manage, but good effort!
The graphics are a nice reminder of what can be done with low-resolution sprites. Was only fun for a little bit, unfortunately - didn't hold my interest after a couple of levels.
I've given up, for now. I'll get to the rest of the pieces eventually! It was just challenging enough to keep it interesting without making me give up too soon. Although I didn't feel like I was doing much discovering, just random shooting and/or following arrows.
It's a good game with an amusing premise, but it's major failing, is, well..
I suggest you read this article (well, review): http://www.vectorstorm.org/2010/01/12/vvvvvv/
In the section, "Dying is fun!" it explains my main issue with this game. To wit: Make dying less frustrating and the game can be much more entertaining while keeping the same level of difficulty. In fact, if you take out the lives system, I would enjoy this a lot more.
Good job, otherwise!
Kill some, will ya?
Pretty obviously unfinished, but it shows potential. More planet sprites would be nice, but the control scheme is quite lovely - it was easy to move precisely. I think this game suffered from a case of more scope than time.
I have only two complaints:
1) the choice of having the main character as a pixel is charming and interesting, but makes it hard to distinguish objects that aren't large.
2) It feels like you finished the movement and exploration stuff, made the map, and then ran out of time before you made it fun. It was enjoyable for a little bit, I suppose, but I was left feeling kind of disappointed.
Squish I say!
That is all.
(Easily the most amusing game I've played so far this LD)
The connection to Discovery is tenuous at best. I guess you.. discover the contents of the boxes? Solid game otherwise.
I kept getting stuck on islands and slowly shot to death. By stuck, I mean being "beached" and having none of my combinations of movement keys getting me out. The graphics weren't the best, and I can't rate the audio as I don't have the bandwidth to wait for a 44 MB (!) download. I understand the idea behind having changes in movement not be instant, but considering the amount of cannonballs flying about I think this game would be more fun if I had a realistic chance of dodging them.
This would have been a great game if you made the bullets black.
Interesting. I had no issues keeping the robot alive - at points it almost seemed like I had too many stations easily available. Didn't get lost either. Was a lot of short fun.
Very well done. Fun!
Innovation: I've never seen a space shmup with ammo as a concern, so that's new to me. Points to innovation for that.
Fun: Got boring after a while, doesn't seem to get any more interesting after a point. Previous commenter mentions a boss, but I never got there I guess.
Theme: Kinda forced in there. It's a space shooter, but occasionally a mysterious narrator power gives you stuff?
Graphics: Not beautiful, but elegant in a way. Functional.
Audio: None that I remember. N/A.
Humor: None that I remember. N/A.
Overall: Decent fun for a short while.
Community: Ooph, nothing. 1/5 for an empty journal. Next LD, participate in the community while you make the game! It'll pay off, even without a community rating.
My best time was 145.
Only really challenging puzzle was the last one. Other ones involved simply clicking places and watching what happened. Kinda like you finished the tutorial levels, got the first level done, then ran out of time. Great concept though! Directional blocks really changes how the puzzle factor works.
Taking away a point on graphics because your background wasn't made by you in the 48 hours. They are otherwise quite good. Remember, Ludum Dare is about making all the content by yourself! Unless you're doing the Jam, of course.
As previously mentioned, that music gets pretty annoying.
Odd, it shouldn't create those shortcuts. I'll take a look this afternoon.
I also run win7 64bit, works fine for me. Could you possibly run run.bat from command line, so that the window doesn't close before you can see the error output?
Endurion: What platform? I assume windows.
Hmm, perhaps in the future I should bundle gosu and chingu with the distribution...
Innovation: Running game. Nothing really new here, plotwise or gameplay wise.
Fun: I felt really cramped in that tight passageway - not much room for maneuvering there. There were several points where I felt that the game was giving me an impossible situation to dodge. It was like, "How was I supposed to get past that? That's not fair." instead of "Damn I mssed up... Oh shit now they're catching up!"
Theme: The theme is kinda just forced onto the game. "You're running. It's dangerous, take my advice." and then it's never mentioned again.
Graphics: Quite good, I especially liked the Ludum signs. Was nice to be dodging them instead of generic unreadable signs. Good touch.
Audio: Music was very suitable and inspiring! No other sounds effects come to mind.
Humor: N/A, I think?
Overall: Overall, a distraction for a few minutes, enjoyable while it lasted.
Community: You posted enough, but a demo would have been nice. You did have an early gameplay video, so 4/5
FUCK YOU
oh wow, that's what I get for leaving the ratings page open on my computer with friends about. I apologize profusely!
A surprisingly fun game. Just when I'd thought I'd mastered the concept your level design threw me for a loop. Good stuff.
As far as community goes, you posted about the game, but didn't have a demo - acceptable seeing as you didn't enter until 10 hours left. Overall, good participation.
The sound made when bumping into a wall was both unnecessary and annoying! Good gameplay concept and nice execution, shame you ran out of time. Good community participation, especially liked your postmortem.
Your download link appears to be broken!
The game crashed as I was finishing level 3. I'll come back to it later, but it was too finicky to finish the levels the first time to do it again right now.
Innovation: Not entirely unique, what with being a shopkeeper game. The gameplay was a unique idea though - don't think I've seen anything like it before!
Fun: There was a sort of puzzle-esque fun to it, feeding that "a-ha!" moment when you realize how to profit without killing your clients.
Theme: Fits it pretty well, except it's more like "buy this" than "take this".
Graphics: Not exactly beautiful, but they get the point across in a functional and easy to figure out manner.
Audio: Kinda the same as the graphics. I wouldn't listen to it in my spare time, but it acted as a good background to the game.
Humor: Some asides in the item descriptions. Smile-worthy.
Overall: Solid, short, fun. Good gameplay concept, executed without bugs and in a presentable manner.
Community: Posted about your ideas, posted screenshots, have a demo. Food shots and/or gameplay video would have brought it to a 5.
Was really quite difficult to sail around, which was a cool mechanic but made it pretty hard to do anything. Might be I just couldn't figure it out.
Not really sure if it fits the theme at all?
Lack of instructions hurts the overall score, but I see promise in this. Really only needs a guide of some sort to help silly people like me figure it out.
Theme was extremely shoehorned in. Interesting concept.
I didn't feel like I really had much impact on whether I got out of the fish or not. I knew action was required, but it was basically "wait for fish to turn properly"
Music took an unexpected but interesting turn. Me like.
I went in to this game skeptical. "Canabalt but you just run through walls? How could that be fun?"
I was happily proven wrong though, it's a fun little timing game. I like how it kind of strips out all the unnecessary complications and is just a pure simple timing challenge.
Graphics are pretty, although the walls are rather bland.
Didn't really feel like I was Escaping anything, just running. If I was running from something, I didn't really get that.
A promising game absolutely ruined for me by the controls. Aaaaagh so clunky. Mouse controls: nessecary
The game progresses slowly, but I'm enjoying it. There's a slight issue with some of the help text being cut off on the right side. Well-conceived, and fun!
Collision was weird too, there were several points where I was like "Oh there was NO way that lava should have hit me!" I really like your lava fill mechanic though.
Yeah, the fact that the sound plays even while midair completely disconnects it form being footsteps, and turns it into this weird background noise. Level design was pretty good, but a death animation would have been nice - oftentimes it was hard to tell I'd actually died, because it doesn't even pause for a second to tell you.
some notes while I play:
the energy mechanic is cool
can I improve the rate shields generate at? as it is I just alt-tab and do something else to let them fill up
I don't think you can describe this as a platformer in any way
the fact that enemies respawn makes it feel like I have no impact on anything
there was one enemy that I couldn't kill because of how the blocks around it were positioned, that bothers me for some reason
I'm lost because I died and I have no idea where the room I respawned in is in relation to where I died
figured it out, I respawned before the bosses that I'd already beaten
level design is quite strange, it feels like you just scribbled randomly and made it into a room (quite possible, this IS LD after all)
oh dammit, when I was nearing the ending (the not-exit one) I entered a room and got stuck in a wall, moved downward, then the game crashed (System.IndexOutOfRangeException, probably caused by my moving out of the level and therefore out of the array, I'm sure)
don't really feel like doing that again, so I guess I don't get to see the ending - that said, your game has bullets that shoot bullets. I am satisfied. also, the upgrade mechanic is neat
That's weird, that's what I tested with :S
what OS?
Because of the way the engine works, it was hard for me to figure out if the player couldn't win anymore. I eventually gave up and hoped the player could figure out if they'd lost :P
for the record, there's at least two ways to get every goal - and one option actually gives you two of them!
I suspect the reason it doesn't work for some people is that the public chat is failing to load properly. Retrying /should/ fix it.
and my username disappeared?
I can't beat level one. What is wrong with me oh god this is hard
I was highly amused by the three-year-old style intro. I wanted to be snarky and link you to the wikipedia page for "Difficulty curve", but unfortunately that page doesn't exist - much like the difficulty curve in your game. It was simple easy platforming and then suddenly, THAT PART. You know the one I mean.
too easy by far, esp. w/ that bomb cache near start, never run out of bombs
Congratulations, I hate frogs now.
I hate you for making me hate frogs.
Theme and plot felt kind of shoehorned on - "here is a game, and oh also you're escaping. yeah."
This game is so relentlessly charming! Graphics are beautiful, as well as the audio. Simple gameplay, nothing too groundbreaking, but the incoming vehicle notification was quite nice. This game made me really want to like it, but...
nah just kidding I loved it
Works on my moto droid! Game itself is rather simplistic, but it was a fun diversion while it lasted.
Music didn't play, so I'll rate n/a for audio.
I felt like I was missing one giant inside joke, which from your comments on IRC I think I was. :P
This game's challenge is "here are some walls. don't touch them. also, your controls suck. good luck"
I frustrated myself endlessly on the last level before having to give up. I suggest: Press left mouse to freeze the ball's movement. Maybe put that on a cooldown, I dunno.
I want to give feedback, but I'm not sure what I could tell you that you didn't know. The growth thingy looked cool , when I got to see it. Pretty much every complaint could be simplified to "finish the game!"
I liked the concept of having to choose between using your ammo to shoot at the zombies and shooting at the barrier, but it fell apart when I realized that I could just sit there and shoot at the barrier, then switch to the zombies when they came close, and still do fine. Imo, too much ammo available.
I was utterly annoyed by the teeny doorways. the character moves half a doorway with each step, so that if you aren't lined up perfectly with the doorway you can't align yourself to it. Ended up having to push against a nearby parallel surface every time I wanted to exit a room.
This doesn't even need lighting, it just needs a separate texture for vertical spaces so that edges are clear.
Got to the core! The key to it is to use the purple blocks to protect you, because they block lava. It's completely not cost-effective for the risk, though. Better to keep going to new planets, got 60 that way. Normally I don't like the entries that take tiny world literally, but in this case, I'll make an exception. 5 for innovation, well done!
Innovation: 3/5 - Not a rip-off, but not really new ideas.
Fun: 4/5 - Strangely satisfying to eliminate an entire race. Perhaps I should seek help.
Theme: 3/5 - Sure, the world is tiny, but this is more "Tiny" than "World".
Graphics: 3/5 - They get the job done, and are clear and concise. Not pretty, though, with more time it could have been polished.
Audio: N/A - On a machine without audio, so will not rate.
Humor: N/A - Didn't see any attempts at humor, therefore not rating.
Mood: 2/5 - The robotic movement is vaguely immersion-breaking.
This actually seemed a little too easy. By killing all the non-target or non-similar colors, I won every time I tried for three rounds.
Innovation: 5/5 - Extremely clever! I love this.
Fun: 3/5 - It was quite fun while it lasted - I was almost tempted to pull out a pad and take notes! - but it doesn't have much replay value.
Theme: 3/5 - I presume the connection to the theme is "It's a small world after all" but it's not communicated well enough. Certainly a clever take, though.
Graphics: 4/5 - Pretty, and functional. The game relies heavily on visual differentiation between targets, sometimes unsuccessfully.
Audio: N/A - Not on a computer with audio, so not rating.
Humor: N/A - Did not see any attempts at humor, so not rating.
Mood: 4/5 - A rather profound noir mood. Works well.
Reminds me a lot of this previous LD entry! http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-21/?action=preview&uid=4902
Don't take that the wrong way, I loved that one. And this one, too. I do enjoy a good maze game. Your mazes are harder to solve, too. Unfortunately, I must mark you down on theme, as it's a stretch at best.
I didn't actually have any trouble with the presentation of the data! The navigation got a little tedious after a little, but it wasn't confusing and everything seemed to work. My main problem with this was the message I felt the plot conveyed about relationships at home, although the plot was well written and engaging (if not relatable for me, not being female, a mother, or married)
Very good use of the theme.
Poor theme fit, and not particularly innovative, but really quite fun.
Very pretty, but lack of checkpoints made it quickly tedious.
Innovation: 3/5 - Not a rip-off, but not really new ideas.
Fun: 3/5 - It's a fun little concept but it gets old really quickly, I suspect from the lack of communication. Positive reinforcement ("You win!" when an exit is reached for example) or score-tracking (how many levels without dying?) would give more reason to play for more than a couple minutes.
Theme: 3/5 - It's a tiny world with tiny things. Not really feeling the "world" aspect, but it works.
Graphics: 3/5 - They're pretty in a minimalist way. Unfortunately, because they're so tiny (ha) it was hard to tell what things were at first. Very functional, however.
Audio: N/A - On a machine without audio, so will not rate.
Humor: N/A - Didn't see any attempts at humor, therefore not rating.
Mood: 4/5 - The graphics come together quite well in this regard, especially the contrast between the dark play area and the bright window (and bird).
Link appears to be broken.
Most of the complaints I have are just problems with shmups in general, so I won't hold them against you. That said, I felt there was some incongruity between the fancy particles and the cartoonish characters. Needs a more distinct visual style!
Commenting here so that this will be in my rated games so that I can come back to rate when I have sound. Looks very promising!
Innovation: 3/5 - Nothing spectacularly new, but nothing too derivative either.
Fun: 2/5 - Loses a lot of fun because the mechanics are not intuitive, and experimentation is discouraged (you can't win if you waste even a single rock, for example)
Theme: 4/5 - Eh, fits the theme, but it's not clever about it.
Graphics: 2/5 - Not pretty, but mostly I can tell what they are. Except that pink thing - I'm guessing it was a pig?
Audio: N/A - Not on a machine with audio, so not rating.
Humor: N/A - Didn't see any attempts at humor, so not rating.
Mood: 3/5 - Cheerful, but nondescript.
Hrm, registering an account is a big barrier of effort. But I'm a cool person so I will do it. Here I go.
Very good! Some feedback as I went through it:
It wasn't immediately clear that click is how you attacked, since all the other controls except that one were shown to me. Still mostly my fault.
I'd like it if a blink wouldn't move you anywhere, using it didn't put it off cooldown. (that's a really awkward sentence)
Biggest problem I see as far as fun is: this game is difficult for the wrong reasons. The very, very small amounts of healing given means that you'll eventually lose just by wearing down, rather than a "fun" death. Increase healing and increase damage, methinks. Give it more "extremes" if that makes sense.
Finally, an in-game explanation of what the stats do would be good.
Innovation: 4/5 - Can't say I've seen this type of game before.
Fun: 3/5 - It took me far too long to realize I'm supposed to go to the planets, not avoid crashing into them! That might just be my fault though. Replay value is lacking.
Theme: 3/5 - There are worlds, and they are tiny. Not really integral to gameplay in any way, though.
Graphics: 4/5 - Pretty and functional.
Audio: N/A - Not on a computer with audio, so not rating.
Humor: N/A - Didn't see any attempts at humor, so not rating.
Mood: 2/5 - There's not enough elements to string together a consistent mood.
Don't really have anything to add other than what was already said, but I wanted to let you know I played this.
Since I can only do web games for now, and because this doesn't have web version, I can't rate this currently. I'm commenting here so that this shows up in my rated games section so that I can come back later and play when I can do downloads.
Suffers from simply becoming impossible, rather than difficult. Promising, if more time is put into it.
Since I can only do web games for now, and because this doesn't have web version, I can't rate this currently. I'm commenting here so that this shows up in my rated games section so that I can come back later and play when I can do downloads.
Innovation: 4/5 - Obviously it's borrowing from Mario, but the level design is quite nice.
Fun: 3/5 - It lacks the punch of the original Mario Brothers because it doesn't tell me the score at the end of the level. It feels less incentivized to get the max score that way. Also, adding a time component (getting a better score the faster it's done) might add to the fun.
Theme: 4/5 - Very clever take on the theme.
Graphics: 5/5 - I looked for something to complain about, I really did.
Audio: N/A - On a machine without audio, so will not rate.
Humor: N/A - Didn't see any attempts at humor, therefore not rating.
Mood: 4/5 - It benefits from having an established mood from Mario, but it works.
Apparently my computer doesn't support hardware acceleration? Huh. Looked promising, oh well :( Silverlight is a really restricting platform target.
I couldn't figure out how to beat this one, so I don't feel comfortable rating it yet. I'll be back!
I got stuck, I think. Definitely promising. As others have said, the closed rooms being dark thing is nice.
Innovation: 4/5 - I haven't seen the concept of platform control done this way, but it's still a platformer.
Fun: 3/5 - You need checkpoints! I don't want to have to do something I already figured out again. Other suggestions: Communicate functionality better. Perhaps have the gnome complain about things? "Aw no, I got to click this platform again..."
Theme: 3/5 - Tiny things in their world. More to do with appearance than gameplay, although that's the same for my game, so no hard feelings there.
Graphics: 3/5 - A little funky in places, but everything is functional and I can tell what everything is.
Audio: N/A - Not on a computer with sound, so not rating.
Humor: N/A - Didn't see any attempts at humor, so not rating.
Mood: N/A - I'm just going to leave this at N/A for games that aren't story-focused now.
Side-note: Got stuck on level 4, I think I pressed the first button at the wrong time? Couldn't jump to the platform anymore.
Far, far, more story than game. I've been guilty of that myself, though.
My favorite part about this was the tutorial! It's a perfectly done tut. Teaches everything clearly and concisely. Thumbs-up. (my entry is in sore need of such a tut) Also, I wish I had done something like this, it's so potentially addictive.
Woo-hoo! I beat it! Towers are OP.
Innovation: 3/5 - Not particularly new, but not a copycat.
Fun: 4/5 - I was surprised by how enjoyable it was.
Theme: 3/5 - A literal tiny world.
Graphics: 4/5 - Pretty, and functional. No complaints.
Audio: N/A - Not on a computer with sound, so no rating.
Humor: N/A - Didn't see any attempts at humor, so not rating.
Mood: 3/5 - Very lonely.
Wow, this was remarkably charming! At points, not very fun per se, but I was smiling anyway. Totally blew my expectations out of the water. Love the art style, everything is smooth. Some points were needlessly frustrating - ESPECIALLY the deadly pendulum.
Overall: 4/5
Innovation: 3/5
Fun: 3/5
Theme: 5/5
Graphics: 5/5
Mute button! Please! I enjoyed the music, but when I wanted to play while talking to someone, it suddenly became really irritating.
(on a personal note, this game is good enough to stand on its own merits - don't sell yourself short by talking about your age)
This might be the single most atmospheric game I've ever played.
Trying to be as constructive as possible. There's a lot of room for polish, so I'll just point out some things I'd like to have seen.
1) Conveyance. I only realized I was supposed to be a grinch-like character at the very end. (right? I'm not actually sure about even that). Even if just a wall of text, give me some context for my actions!
2) Jumping is far too abrupt. Add a little "float". Something that might help: vertical momentum should continue in the air, even after I've let go of the arrow keys.
3) Music! Would help make it more charming. Obviously, this isn't always possible, and I don't fault you for not including it.
Those things said, the sprite art is very charming. You make very good use of limited size. It is very obvious what everything is supposed to be (no easy task). Your platforming puzzles, though simple, were difficult enough to be entertaining for the duration.
Make more!
I was a little disappointed in the lack of strategy, but perhaps it just needs balance tweaks - spamming Bursters is OP. Overall cool.
Question: You say the music is by __twc. Does that not invalidate this as a Compo entry?
Oh, forgot to mention. By just using only bursters, constantly, one can easily get a score of under 9k.
The random starting positions made it feel too luck-based at first, but I eventually started winning consistently when I started taking into account the fact that they move as I place obstacles. I knew my TD mazing skills would come in handy! Take that, mom.
I spent a while rocking out to the chiptune.
Very pleasant game, I enjoy the philosophical take on Minimalist. I wonder, do you need to listen to all of them before you find kitten? I'm pretty sure I did.
I'm giving graphics an N/A on this one, since they're clearly not the point.
My first idea for this theme was a collection of simplistic minigames all using boxes for the art. I told myself I didn't have enough time for the scope I wanted, though - glad to see I was wrong! Not only that, you built friggin' Meat Boy around it! Well done!
Tiny annoyances: the music would eventually get very... "clangy"? towards the part that I assume is the end of the loop. When I first heard it I assumed it was my computer freezing, the way it repeated dissonant sounds.
Still, high marks from me! Excellent note for me to end the night on. However: I would like you to punch yourself in whatever part of your body you feel is most responsible for the double fireballs. Screw those.
The issue is that the link is https; the browser is blocking the insecure content. If you just remove the s in the URL it works fine! Neurolabe should edit the entry to fix that.
I wasn't expecting long-distance relationship feels from this game D:
amazingly atmospheric as always
Unfortunately I discovered after a while of experimentation that the arrow keys reset your progress for some reason. Wasn't compelled to try again.
good lord these puzzles got too hard for me! made even more frustrating by the quite dissonant sound made by the level-clearing wipe thing. (I think that's a really cool effect though - maybe just drop the dinging?)
otherwise a really fantastic game. Full points on innovation!
I really wanted to love this, but a rhythm game lives and dies by the music and unfortunately the music here was only okay. On the plus side, if you take this after LD and give it some really good music, it'd be awesome!
Only other complaint I have is that it took me a while to realize that it wasn't possible to hit two at the same time. Somehow I didn't understand that as a "decision point". No idea how to go about improving that, but there ya go.
Otherwise, a really innovative concept that I'd love to see you expand upon!
I suggest using Dropbox ( http://dropbox.com ). Place the jar and the HTML file in your Public folder, click on the HTML file and select Copy Public Link, and distribute that. Just to make sure that'd work, I uploaded it here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5227720/Anti-Tac-Tic.html
Feel free to use that as your link if you don't want to bother with dropbox, it shouldn't go anywhere.
I really like the game design! I've often wondered to myself, how do you fix tic-tac-toe? I'm not sure this is necessarily fixed (I think the player who goes first always wins, in optimal gameplay) but it's definitely better. Unfortunately, the AI is really easy to beat, but that's a problem that more time would solve I suspect.
Dangit, I shouldn't like this game, but I really do. The epitome of minimalism, imo - "do a lot with a little". Stupidly simple gameplay concept, but a lot of fun anyway!
I would recommend a high-score table and some fun, high-energy music and this'd be great.
P.S.: 9104! Beat that, other players!
The idea is that it's a multiplayer game - for best results, find a friend to play the game with. AI wasn't in the budget, unfortunately! :D
If you want to try it by yourself, or with a friend on the same computer, copy the link once you've made the game and open it again in a separate window.
@gilmore606 Wow, thanks for the compliments! Yes, I invented the mechanics (although I would argue that they are simple enough that I couldn't have been the first).
Gotta admit, I have no idea how that bug could have happened; shouldn't be possible! Ah well.
Just changed the Source link, as I've moved the Github repo from cress to cress-ludumdare, in anticipation of using cress for my post-compo work on it (including AI!)
I didn't think this theme would lead to any interesting games 'til I saw this one.
I'm at a loss for complaints or recommendations - my only gripe is that I wish the sound made when the bait hits the water varied more, because I tried to make music and it didn't work! :D
Awesome soundtrack! Extremely appropriate and pleasant. For your enjoyment, here are the notes I jotted down while playing:
14 seemed too easy, like I missed the trick that made it difficult
then I realized the trick on 15
I realized that you were tracking clicks on 17, after 300 clicks... whoops
took me forever to beat 21 then I beat 22 in FOUR CLICKS YEAH
27 felt really good, like the successful application of skills learned
537 clicks!
As everyone else mentioned, the click detection issue is really frustrating. Stops this from being an otherwise very atmospheric game. Fix that up, add a little polish, and I could spend a long time just clicking things! On that note, I'd like a "free" mode, with no time limit.
High marks for sheer promise - this game really feels like something that could expand well post-compo. Just needs polish and features. I was surprised by that radial menu - very sleek.
Funny name. Wish there was a game to go with the name, but the idea will have to do.
Also, unless I'm mistaken, that applause soundtrack is against the rules. I'll just rate Audio N/A.
This is really pretty! Love the aesthetic. I seem to have missed the relevance of the theme, though I didn't get too particularly far in my two runs. Audio is solid, though I had to dock a point for an audio glitch that occurs when you leave enemies behind you (I think that's what causes it, anyway). I saw some level design stuff that I thought was pretty neat, although I am unsure how one is supposed to solve one of the button puzzles. I ended up just waiting until an enemy wandered onto the button.
I like the idea and it's a strong execution - most of my complaints are just minor nitpicking. I wish the shop automatically paused. The audio beeps were rather shrill, so I had to mute pretty soon. I found it hard to remember which ores were most valuable. Overall a strong game, just needs time and polish.
Surprisingly atmospheric! By the way, I don't know if it's a typo in the notes, but the key is Z, not C. Took me a while to realize that it clears the ice at the top of the water.
I liked how the fish were harmless decoration, until you got deep enough and swordfish start being a threat.
Extreeeemeeelly stylish. Looks great! I like the flat effect while turning, but I would agree that it doesn't fit the rest of the art style. I'm not convinced that the active sonar actually does anything. Chopper sound eventually grated on my nerves.
Very pretty! I wish there was more feedback on how I was dying. I think I was dying exclusively to body heat? It seems like I don't get enough blue cells to keep the heat down.
Agreed that it would have been cool if the particles played the melody. Not particularly innovative, but smoothly executed.
Great art style. Agreed that the game really needs audio - even crappy beeps would give a degree of feedback that's lacking. Don't see the connection to the theme myself, but I haven't beat it. Again, very pretty. Love the aesthetic.
Very pretty!
What an extremely annoying input method. As others said, a sad truth, but I was more annoyed at the game by the end than sympathizing.
It seems like there's a lot of cool simulation going on underneath the surface, but I'm not sure how to interact with it currently. None of the buttons seem to do anything, possibly because I'm not sure what I'm doing. My resources seem to go up, but I can't figure out how to make a colony. I look forward to the post-compo version, when you have time to make a tutorial!
It's a little... unsubtle? The themes the game is going for are literally stated, which ironically means that there's not much Beneath the Surface. It's a little like trying to make Freudian allusions by drawing a giant, anatomically correct penis.
That aside, I liked a lot of the things you did with the appearance - I was especially fond of the visual change when entering the "combat" part.
I liked the music as well!
Big fan of the aesthetic. Some of the tiling doesn't look quite right, but that doesn't matter because the color choices are fantastic. I loved the digging mechanic, and the level design showcased it well. Unfortunately that boss room frustrated me enough that I had to give up before finishing. I got stuck with only 4 health left in the boss room, and so I died in almost one hit every time. That combined with having to dig through the dirt for every single boss attempt had a multiplicative effect on the frustration. Side note - took me a while to figure out how to beat the boss, because the boss made an "enemy taking damage" sound when I hit it, so it seemed like that was accomplishing something. Still, a solid 4/5 - wish I could have seen the ending.
Yeah, I didn't have time to bugfix thoroughly. Literally pushed my last commit with a minute remaining. Ah well!
Wow! I'm impressed. I was very pleasantly surprised by the depth of some of the platforming puzzles. I didn't end up beating it, so who knows what's at the end, but I was pleased with what I saw. You also did well at allowing for instant retries, which can make or break games like this.
Graphics and sound are more functional than pretty, but the legitimately well-thought-out level design makes up for it.
Jetpacks automatically add a +1 to the fun rating. I explored for a while but never found a power stone. I would do very poorly in Etno's situation, apparently. No issues with running it, although I did run into the known jumping bug. Not a big deal.
I really love the idea of a title like "WHAT IS IN THE SWAMP? (IT'S MONSTERS)". I just wish the "(IT'S MONSTERS)" part was in the title screen, haha. I was surprised how natural the controls felt, after getting used to them.
I get the error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: me/godshawk/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
The little acceleration arrows are a surprising amount of fun. Obviously there's not much depth (or content) to the game but I would totally play a finished game about zooming around on little arrows.
Great style! I feel like the appearance would be significantly less weird if the hand that's attached to the body pivoted with the shovel hand instead. I can tell if I liked a game if I am willing to retry it after dying - and I was immediately willing to give this another go. Didn't make it past 14/16 artifacts, but I had fun anyway. Big fan of the pikmin-style artifact names. Definitely the funniest entry I've played so far.
Very good tension building! I really felt like I was at my wit's end just as the husband returned. I was extremely relieved. Great mood.
If you want to start with weapons, try starting planet "Termiland". The planet Athland just to the right has a very weak military and can easily be bullied into giving you free food.
^That seed is on Chrome, btw! The Firefox version still starts you with weapons, but there's not an easily-bullied neighbor.
That's very strange! It may be because you are using a browser that doesn't support pointer lock, or perhaps you are disallowing pointer lock. There's a bug I didn't get a chance to fix wherein you cannot input mouse events without allowing pointer lock.
lycheejs.org seems to be down, so I cannot rate the game as it stands.
Weird, interesting and a beautiful art style. Well done!
Well done! Feels very smooth. I got frustrated and stopped because of the lack of checkpointing, but it was very cool.
Seemed really promising, but I too could not get past the 66g contract. Spending all my money on chickens(?) got it to level 3, but the contract still failed, and goats seem to kill it always. Couldn't figure out what the water spout does, either. Voting N/A on theme because this matches the theme in the same way nearly every video game does.
Very impressed by the background audio, btw. Very good!
Wonderful graphics! The theme interpretation just reflects how bad the theme was, IMO. Funny concept, and I was pretty amused by the instruction sheet on the door.
Fun and simple! Good execution on a simple concept. Audio loop is a little bit too tight, but otherwise not unpleasant. I refuse to believe that level 7 is beatable. Voting N/A on theme because this fits the theme just like nearly every other video game.
Invisible walls suck! My friend and I had trouble with network performance that made actual dogfighting difficult. Seems like it could be fun with a bunch of people!
Great music! I too got to 30, but I stopped because the game had gotten way too easy and there was no risk I would ever die.
A cool idea for the theme! Unfortunately as it stands it's almost more of a tech demo than a game. Would be cool to see the resize mechanic used for more!
Played this with my friend. Surprisingly fun! I only wish bullets had more recoil, so you could zoom around by shooting. We enjoyed ourselves quite a bit screwing around in the lowgrav and dying by standing on bullets.
Innovative concept! The end result isn't too fun, but with polish it could be!
In desperate need of a mute button!
It's a good, basic incremental game. Nothing revolutionary but if you're like me and enjoy getting sucked into skinner boxes it'll last you a while.
Played this with my friend for a couple rounds. Seems like it could be interesting to see with a full 16 players! Fighters are way too slow to be useful, though. Hit feedback would have been very appreciated, because it's hard to tell at the moment whether you actually hit at all.
I loved the sound effects! The special move one was especially good.
Fun little toy! I had a good laugh when I realized the mechanic and it was very cathartic to play around with. If you have a controller and a windows computer available, it's worth the download and a bit of your time.
When I first opened the tab I had to quickly take my headphones off because the audio was extremely loud and very dissonant. After muting chrome, I swung around a little using the gamepad controls and collected veggies. Swinging was cool, reminds me of teeworlds.
I love the sarcasm here! It's fun to play a game where you're a villain, protecting a terrible, terrible theme. Turn speed is a little slow to be really enjoyable but I had a good chuckle.
Yaaaay I did it. Fun way to learn some planetary trivia. Good "it is a mystery" music. I enjoyed the feel of narrowing down the potential suspects. I don't think this fits the theme at all, though. Not that I blame you, this was a terrible theme.
No one to play it with, but I love the aesthetic and the little sound that plays when they bounce off each other is really satisfying.
Haha, I didn't think I'd run into another game controlled by whistling! I love the idea of using it to do a flappy-bird-esque thing, although it's maybe too easy? I feel like there should be some consequence for hitting an obstacle, I suppose.
Great idea!
Gosh it's pretty! Please expand on it outside of LD!
"Some images are found in the web"
Shouldn't this be a Jam entry, then? The Compo asks that all assets be made by you in the 48 hours.
I really liked the shooting sound effect. Definitely just held down space and an arrow key, though.
Hahaha this is great! I really liked the core concept. I hope you polish this up and make it even cooler.
It's a really interesting toy! I hope you do a post-competition version and make it into a game!
I love this take on Indestructo Tank! I also appreciated that the tanks were indestructible, heh heh heh. Awesome art style and the music was the perfect contrast of serene and energetic.
This is super polished in a really impressive way. This could have been done lazily and still gotten the point across but you put the effort into it and it shows. Well done!
You did a great job of setting the mood! Very clever. I love the radio audio - really adds a lot to it.
I love the aesthetic and visuals so much! I wish the theme tied into gameplay better -- it's still just a generic dungeon brawler thing -- but it's super fun!
I love the technology on display here! Everything feels nice. I agree with the other commentators that it would have been cool to have more feedback (blood, screams? flatlining, what have you) but I understand the tech taking a while. Super cool!
I love the ridiculous premise, super creative. Good checkpointing!
Beautiful and clean! I feel like the theme is only really present in that you have a skeleton sprite. Maybe that's an issue with the theme, though...
I love this! I love the idea and it's a very smart implementation, and it looks great. My only gripe is that it's very easy until you mess up, which can take a while. It feels almost like it only becomes interesting when you screw up a few times first.
I never figured out what the difference between the tricks was! Gorgeous visuals and the audio does a great job at setting the creepy, insane mood.
Awesomely creative and well executed! What a fantastic job.
My only nitpick is a lack of good feedback -- I thought I was doing horribly until I got to the end and had 84% accuracy.
Very impressive visuals and tech! The gameplay was a little easy but fun at the core. Will definitely take some time to look through the source and learn from it!
I love this a whole lot! We had a similar concept and this is so much better executed - it's fantastic + beautiful!
I love the concept and it's really well executed! It was fun to make constant decisions between firepower and ability to dodge. I feel like this was unfortunately restricted by the two button controls - it could be even better with a more fluid movement system. If you do a post compo version I would suggest dropping the two button controls limitation.
Love it!
There's something great to be said for doing a simple thing very well! I want more polished small scope games like this one in Ludum Dare.
Something I've really liked about this LD is seeing people with the same basic concept (two buttons controls + growing = left/right arrows growing a plant) and all the different interesting variations on that idea. We both did a very similar concept and it's really cool to see how your game differs from mine. I love the branching concept, and the gradual shrinking as your plant gets longer.
This is a fun concept, but I feel like the decision to follow the two button controls restriction hurts it. You really need a third "jump" button!
@acotis - that's odd! I tested on a fairly wide array of browsers. Most recent versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari should all work. Could you give some details about your setup?
I loved the little animations - the yawn and falling facefirst when you're out of energy. (I can relate!) There was a lot of downtime where you just queue up all the actions and watch it slowly go, but I was fine with that because I was just listening to a podcast and managing a little farm. I'd like more things that I can do while I'm waiting for animations to play out! Very enjoyable!
I came here from your twitter where you promised a tiny and weird game and you delivered in full. I love the mood and the way this game is very self contained - it's not aspiring to be more than it is, it just is. Love it!
I love the style! The puzzles are very unforgiving, as people have already said. I'd like more interaction/choice in deciding where to spread your virus.
I love the growing/shrinking to change rotation speed mechanic! In practice I found the pattern matching tedious, but the movement mechanic is interesting.
Haha, I love the two-button controls interpretation.
This was a relaxing and pretty showcase of some really cool effects! When playing, I was imagining how rad it would be to look at the shapes I was generating, in VR.
Works great for me in Chrome, for the record!
I loved it! It's really hard but not unfair. I think the mechanics are neat and have a lot of room for doing interesting things in a full game if you wanted to do it. It definitely scratches that "try/fail/repeat" itch where you learn patterns and get progressively better every time.
I love the feeling of it! Very pleasing to toss boxes around. I had troubles because of my very limited play area (my computer desk is exactly at the end of the conveyor belt... so I kept hitting my hands against an invisible wall while trying to pick up boxes that fell) but that added to the feeling of growing chaos. Fun!
This is super neat! I really love the effect. I was totally engrossed. Well done!
I really love the way you contrasted above ground vs under ground w/ the prism colors. Pretty! I found the actual platforming a bit too challenging for my tastes, but I still played through and beat it.
This is by far my favorite entry so far. Perfect in pretty much every way it could be! I love it.
Super neat idea! Played a few times with a friend and found it compelling. I'd be interested in a fully fleshed out version!
Beautiful! I love the polish and personality, and the audio design is fantastic. Really good attention to detail.
Lovely! I love how the game progresses in terms of strategies, at first just keeping your lovely friends safe and then slowly becoming a wrathful god keeping the truth hidden. Adorable art style and the music fits it fantastically!
I really enjoyed the way the jetpack feels!
I love this take on the theme!
for the record, my best score is 430
There's a character in Necrodancer, the Monk, who dies as soon as he touches gold, which is such a huge inversion of the normal way that game plays that it turns a lot of it on its head. This feels the same way! It's super clever.
Very creative! Love how this looks and works with the theme.
Love the style! This game is adorable and funny. I like that it doesn't overstay its welcome - it establishes the joke, pays off and then is over. Really enjoyed the grooblin designs!
super charming! all the characters seem like fun guys. :mushroom:
I'm a fan of MidBoss, so I was pretty excited to give this a shot! (and if you like this game you should play MidBoss too - a former LD game!)
I was not disappointed! I got a big grin on my face when I realized the take on the theme, which feels vaguely They Live-ish. Solid gameplay delivers on the premise well. It's a shame there wasn't enough time to get the instructions re: what the pages do into the game, but the art and music are fantastic.
Very amused by the loot crates! It actually kept me coming back to replay it when I was originally planning on closing the tab, so I guess that works exactly as they're supposed to, huh?
Since it affects the usability with small screens, I deployed a post-jam hotfix to fix the UI scaling. thanks for pointing the issue out!
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this game is so beautiful! thank you for sharing it with us
This is clever and fun! Gorgeous art and style and feels good while being just frustrating enough to be great.
Super neat! I have some logic gate experience, but I eventually got stuck on Or by XOR. (Isn't it impossible to make an OR out of only XOR? it's been a while so maybe I've misremembered.) Anyway I love the running out of space interaction with the digital logic stuff; reminds me of a Zachtronics game.
I wish some fuel was guaranteed -- felt unfair that I had no option to survive because no fuel showed up sometimes!
charming sound effects and a really great take on the theme!
great use of the theme! I'm also picking up Rust for gamedev purposes, high-five! (though I didn't use it for this LD). Shooting is a trap, always be dodging!
It took me a few tries to understand the mechanics, but I had fun! I really love the name.
That might be a lack of clarity in the description - you need to have 8+ cards in the Forest deck at once, and not in the discard.
@6smith that's super wierd! I've pushed a hotfix to switch to an mp3 for that file. Seems like a firefox specific issue, but I don't know why. Firefox should surely be able to handle .wavs? Anyway. Thanks!
Really fantastically nailed the aesthetic!
So extremely stylish! Very polished. I found the actual mechanics rather frustrating (as with another commentator, I gave up on the tic-tac-toe level) but it still felt good to play.
As others have said, I was confused by not being able to throw burning sticks into the fire. Once I figured that out, I liked the balance between throwing sticks at enemies and keeping the fire going, and the variety in enemies. The higher pitched parts of the music became a bit grating, but I really enjoyed the bass line.
I think I got into a bugged state where time remaining on my construction was negative and it was constantly building those parts every month, which made it pretty hard to succeed! That aside, after I got over the hurdle of understanding what my goal was, I was having fun. I like the aesthetic of the UI.
I really liked the extra layer that the corruption adds on top of a traditional typing game. It adds a good sense of panic as you struggle to interpret or remember what the text was going to be.
Our games have similar naming conventions, so that's a plus. :D
I played this multiplayer with @zyrconium! We played it kind of wrong (we did cooperative multiplayer sharing a sheet via Google Docs, and had 5 items per with 3 from the deck each).
I really liked how the scramble to find 10 items around you at the beginning led to MacGyver-style "oh gosh what can I do with a hammer and a knife". This was really goofy and fun to play! It was a blast coming up with ridiculous justifications for how I could possibly stop a swinging pendulum with my arrangement of garbage.
I don't know if I'd want to play it competitively, because taking it seriously kind of breaks it IMO. But very fun and creative as a group!
I really like the fact that the camera follows the egg rather than the player, that's a fun touch. I found the time it takes to respawn a little frustratingly slow, given how frequently I was dying.
I finished it! It was a very interesting concept -- the discovery that the hands sort of "glow" and therefore kind of work as an analog to being able to "feel" my way around by walking around with my hands out in front of me was really cool. I found pointing the camera in the correct direction really unintuitive -- eventually figured it out, but it was obviously hard to see the model of the camera most of the time so I struggled. I really liked how the trail of polaroids on the ground made "backtracking" easier.
My first reaction when I found a second key was "oh god, what am I going to need all these keys for?!" I had trouble juggling the fuses and the keys in my storage until I finally found my way to the fusebox and realized I only needed one key.
I'm not a very good photographer in significantly less challenging environments, but I saved some photos because that's fun!
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I love stealth games! And this one is very polished! I had a ton of trouble with the very first level because I didn't understand that the arrow next to the instruction meant press down -- I only understood when I went and looked at the comments, and then it was obvious in retrospect. I also had a hard time intuitively understanding when a guard was going to be able to find me behind cover or not -- something that I imagine would just need a little small numbers tweaking to feel great.
The look for is really nice and clean, very cohesive and readable style.
Really loved the feeling of the animation lining up with the beat when I was shooting successfully!
Very funny! I was frequently giggling at the inherent silliness of the whole thing.
I said out loud as I was playing "that's a great bit!" I really like the presentation, and the game was very fun. I also had difficulty with the dragon until I switched from keyboard to a controller, after which I completed it immediately -- it was much easier to aim shots using the analog stick.
I am a very fast reader so I got to enjoy the easter egg text. Loved the humor throughout!
Great music! I liked blocking shots with the shields, but the ammo mechanics felt a bit unintuitive -- it wasn't clear to me why I was getting ammo back or of what types. I really enjoyed the omnicalculator.com death facts.
Took me a bit to parse the difference between phase A and phase B -- but the healing phase was very fun! I like the idea of healing vs buffing healthy systems, and the elevator music is great.
Beautiful! I wished for a little more depth in the puzzles, but it was a delightful experience anyway. The camera worked remarkably well and I loved the cute little robot.
That was fun! I really like the way the lasers look and feel, they're very striking in the darkness. I completely missed the existence of the sprint button on my first go through so I was stuck on the introduction of lasers -- ended up restarting the game to go look at the controls to realize my mistake, but then played through to the finish. Love the various sci-fi references.
I'm loving seeing other entries do minigames! I really like the "minigames as combat" concept. It ended up feeling a bit easy -- I beat 40 enemies without feeling like I was ever at any risk of losing. But I liked the minigames enough to do them 40 times!
Great style! I agree with the other comments that the 10 seconds part doesn't come across strongly -- you're so focused on the typing that the timer getting faster doesn't register. An effect of some sort when the timer changes would help I think. I got 76 seconds on my first attempt -- the second appearance of synchronized is what got me!
I got to 209 souls! Nowhere near round 30. I liked the weirder upgrades like the boomerang scythe and the always-rotating scythe. The description is right, the healer upgrade isn't too bad!
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I love the aesthetic! The name BEANSTALKERS is really good. I found the range of the scythe to be claustrophobic, requiring a lot of very precise movement to avoid getting hit by the things I'm hitting. The rumble on hitting an enemy added a lot of oomph! Felt really good to whack things.
My aversion to consuming resources meant that I rarely used the spells, focusing on the towers instead. Not sure if that's the soundest strategy but hey, I love towers.
Really liked the whistling game over song also! Makes it sting less.
Love the concept! My main issue as others have said was that not being able to see the target because of bad luck was a little frustrating since I couldn't judge how far away it was. But the core here is great!
I was constantly forgetting that A and D don't turn, which was very funny because the vehicle rolling all the time was inherently funny. I enjoyed the core route planning challenging and trying to find a place to fit the boxes was neat.
You nailed the difficulty curve! I felt like each puzzle nicely incremented the challenge without being too obvious.
It's a tradition for an Arcane Rituals game to be stylish, but y'all really nailed it on the aesthetic this time! Really a delight to see in motion. I especially love the way the tie moves, but all of the visual choices were great and the feeling of the guns was really solid. I didn't end up feeling like I needed to use the cover mechanic at all, since I could just shoot the enemies before they shot at me. Bonus points for the snake eater joke!
I was excited to see where the mechanics went after the splitting ability -- would like to see more levels!
I also ended up defeated by a plough level -- I think I got hit by a bug where the screen went black near the end of the second plough level and I ended up eventually dying to what I assume was the plough. Frustrated me enough that I didn't want to try again!
I very much love the way the poem is integrated, and the wee beastie is indeed adorable. Excellent scrabbling action.
Love a good name generator!
I really liked the movement, especially the propulsive bash, especially when I got vampirism. Of course, as in all things, vampirism is really powerful and I instantly won on that run!
Truly impressive! Beautiful art direction, fantastically expressed mechanics, and there's so much! I kept asking myself, how is there still more to this game? Really well done.
I liked the balance between collecting more bits and deciding when to shift layers, and the way the trail following the ball looks when switching layers.
Incredible visuals! I really enjoyed the way my friend and I ended up communicating ("I'm at the big rock the size of a small rock") But after an hour and a half or so we just could not get to the black box the normal way, so we ended up just streaming the pioneer perspective and got there pretty quickly afterwards. Maybe if the effective vision range was slightly longer we could have made it? But great stuff anyway.